Bob Trzynka said it best in his latest press release;
“Monday’s announcement leaves a lot of questions to be answered by the City’s future leadership. There are issues of oversight, zoning, building permits, and taxes, along with how do we remediate and redevelop the land where the old Smithfield plant stands today. Sioux Falls needs thoughtful and considered governance to make sure that we take maximum advantage of this amazing opportunity.”
I told a reporter this last week that it was ‘wonderful’ that this is moving forward, but all the secrecy up until this point doesn’t help the process. While I am hopeful the next council and mayor will make this process as open as possible I am NOT going to hold my breath. There is a reason this was negotiated under the dark of the night, there was a lot of taxpayer capital promised . . . to a bunch of communists!
I still think there needs to be a petition drive on the TIF. This is a company that makes BILLIONS and are owned by Chinese Communists, there is ABSOLUTELY no reason they need a tax break, especially since they pay slave wages and send ALL profits to a Communist Country!
I have said ‘would it be so bad if they left completely?’ Nope. I guarantee if we cancel the TIF and they leave (I don’t think they will) that another industry would come in, like another packing plant or something else that could hire these folks.
Our leadership in SD is so short sighted and idiotic. Instead of giving away the farm to a bunch of communists, maybe find a way to survive without them and say, ‘See yah later.’
I have told folks Smithfield has to build in Sioux Falls, they don’t have a choice because of the commodity supply in the region, but they would never tell city councilors that when they are bilking ‘DEMOCRATIC’ taxpayers. I find it funny that the same people that support mass deportation have no problem giving communists our tax dollars so they can hire immigrants to work at their plants. Does anyone see the irony and hypocrisy in all of this?
